IRI - 2014 Team Invitations

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by OZ_341

... and we hope to be there in the future! Best wishes for a successful IRI !

Team 340 was bummed when we saw you withdrew your application. We really hoped for another event pitted next to you guys. Super Pit could have happened!! We really enjoyed being next to you guys twice this season and just have the utmost respect for your program. Hopefully we'll see you at RampRiot!

[Boe]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

BBQ?

Not sure what that is relative to robotics, but now I'm hungry.

Blue Banner Quotient. Total number of blue banners at an event divided by teams in attendance.

[Meredith Novak]

The quality of teams who are not going to be attending IRI is stunning and speaks to the great success of the FRC community in building an expanding class of excellent teams. I felt very bad for the IRI selection committee this year, so please be kind in your discussions.

I would like to mention that we have lots of room at the Ozark Mountain Brawl that will be in Fayetteville, AR the weekend after IRI. We would be beyond thrilled to have the IRI applicants join us. There will be some teams competing at both events as you will see when I start publishing the OMB 2014 team list. I would like to expose my young Arkansas teams to as many of these great FRC teams as possible.

Perhaps I could offer free corn dogs? (Anyone who knows me, realizes the significance. I wouldn't really know where to acquire a corn dog...are there veggie corn dogs?)

[Botsup]

Not sure if they will be selling corn dogs this year (would be awesome), but I am really looking forward to having a giant ear of corn on a stick! Last year everyone was walking around, chowing down on these. When I went to buy one the last day they had already closed up shop. I will be buying my corn early this year!

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by Meredith Novak

Perhaps I could offer free corn dogs? (Anyone who knows me, realizes the significance. I wouldn't really know where to acquire a corn dog...are there veggie corn dogs?)

Yes! My wife is a frequent consumer of this product:

https://www.morningstarfarms.com/pro...ggie-corn-dogs

She's more of a robotics fan than she realizes.

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

107 qualified to go to championships but declined to attend. They were one of the best teams in FiM last year.

We are on the same boat. We qualified for the championship however the team declined to go to the championship.

When we won the Peachtree regional, we decided that we wanted to play at IRI and we should apply.

[IndySam]

The IRI selection committee had had harder job that Aerial Assist referees!

What a list.

[Racer26]

What I find awfully impressive about this? Of the Canadian teams that applied, only 3 (I think!) were rejected.

781, 1285, and 1325.

1285's sister team 1241 WAS accepted, leaving *really* only two Canadian teams not selected.

On a related note: I wonder how IRI's committee would handle a multiple robot school, such as the Robodawgs, which does NOT build twins (or triplets). Its easy in the case of 1241/1285, and 70/494, because you invite one, and they come as one team and it ultimately doesn't matter which of the two robots they bring. In a case of say 216/244/288, do you let the team(s) decide which robot to bring?

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Racer26

What I find awfully impressive about this? Of the Canadian teams that applied, only 3 (I think!) were rejected.

781, 1285, and 1325.

1285's sister team 1241 WAS accepted, leaving *really* only two Canadian teams not selected.

On a related note: I wonder how IRI's committee would handle a multiple robot school, such as the Robodawgs, which does NOT build twins (or triplets). Its easy in the case of 1241/1285, and 70/494, because you invite one, and they come as one team and it ultimately doesn't matter which of the two robots they bring. In a case of say 216/244/288, do you let the team(s) decide which robot to bring?

11/193 don't build twins/operate seperately and only 11 was invited based off this.

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

11/193 don't build twins/operate seperately and only 11 was invited based off this.

Fair enough. The question I have then, is are they expected to bring the robot that competed the regular season as 11, or are they allowed to bring 193 instead if they so desire?

EDIT: I say this, because it's not uncommon for teams to make dramatic changes to their robots between regular season and off-seasons, sometimes even going so far as to build an entirely new robot.

[EricDrost]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Fair enough. The question I have then, is are they expected to bring the robot that competed the regular season as 11, or are they allowed to bring 193 instead if they so desire?

We're bringing the 11 bot, but I doubt we'd be told to go home if we brought the 193 bot.

[Jscout11]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Fair enough. The question I have then, is are they expected to bring the robot that competed the regular season as 11, or are they allowed to bring 193 instead if they so desire?

EDIT: I say this, because it's not uncommon for teams to make dramatic changes to their robots between regular season and off-seasons, sometimes even going so far as to build an entirely new robot.

We'll be bringing our normal "11" robot (most likely with some modifications, like we did last year with our 2013 bot)

Edit* Drost beat me to it

[ElvisMom]

If you are looking for another competition this summer - Rock River Off-Season Competition is the weekend after IRI in Rockford IL (west of Chicago), still have openings too.

We're looking forward to a great weekend - http://www.r2oc.org/index.html

[themccannman]

I'm astonished 1806 and 3928 didn't make the cut. I'm also curious how 1918, 1983, and 971 also didn't make it; that is, if they hadn't already stated that they couldn't attend.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by themccannman

1983, that is, if they hadn't already stated that they couldn't attend.

We didn't apply.